Paleo-pedological record of the rocourt pedosequence at veldwezelt-hezerwater (belgian pleistocene loess belt): Part 1 - evolution of the parent material

Catena

Volumn 107, Issue , 2013, Pages 118-129

  Vancampenhout, K ^a   Langohr, R ^b   Slaets, J ^c   Buurman, P ^d   Swennen, R ^a   Deckers, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early Weichselian; Loess; Mineral weathering; Paleopedological record; Rocourt soil; Textural proxies

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; EEMIAN; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LOESS; PALEOSOL; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDOGENESIS; PEDOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL TEXTURE; WEATHERING;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84876430936     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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